NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Winfield, KS
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Winfield, Kansas since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 150 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 10 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 150
- EF3 or stronger
- 10
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
89 deaths in all
What the records show for Winfield
The strongest of the 150 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F5 on May 25, 1955; its path came within 5 miles, and it killed 80 people. Of the 150, 9 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 65 have come since 2000. May has had the most tornadoes, 52. The most recent tornado was on April 27, 2024. Winfield has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 70% of the 171 Kansas cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 223 times since 1961, with stones up to 4.5 inches (grapefruit size). Winfield has more hail reports within 10 miles than 63% of the 171 Kansas cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Winfield
By decade
- 2020s7
- 2010s27
- 2000s31(1 EF3+)
- 1990s27(4 EF3+)
- 1980s15(1 EF3+)
- 1970s11
- 1960s15(2 EF3+)
- 1950s17(2 EF3+)
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1955 | F5 | 5 mi | 56.4 mi | 80 / 273 |
| May 3, 1999 | F4 | 24 mi | 24 mi | 6 / 150 |
| Apr 2, 1956 | F4 | 17 mi | 108.3 mi | 2 / 29 |
| Apr 26, 1991 | F4 | 2 mi | 25 mi | 1 / 0 |
| Mar 16, 1965 | F4 | 4 mi | 82.7 mi | 0 / 7 |
| Jun 12, 2004 | F3 | 16 mi | 4 mi | 0 / 2 |
| Mar 26, 1991 | F3 | 13 mi | 15 mi | 0 / 6 |
| Mar 26, 1991 | F3 | 7 mi | 67 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 15, 1980 | F3 | 14 mi | 13.3 mi | 0 / 4 |
| May 13, 1965 | F3 | 19 mi | 62.5 mi | 0 / 10 |
| Apr 27, 2024 | EF2 | 15 mi | 1.29 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 14, 2018 | EF2 | 19 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 150, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Winfield
The Storm Prediction Center has 223 hail reports within 10 miles of Winfield since 1961, made on 118 separate days. Of these, 146 were 1 inch across or larger, and 20 reached 2 inches. The largest, 4.5 inches (grapefruit size), fell on May 10, 1992. The most recent report is from August 16, 2024. May has the most reports, 72.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Winfield
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Winfield 3NE, KS, 3 miles northeast of Winfield at 1,233 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 68°F; January is the coolest, at 44°F and 20°F. May is the wettest at 6.0 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.1 inches; the year adds up to 40.7 inches over 59 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 55 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 108 nights a year. Snowfall averages 9.0 inches a year, most of it in December. That 40.7 inches is more than at 84 of the 103 Kansas stations used on this site (82%). Arkansas City, 13 miles south, has its own station (Winfield Strother Field Airport, KS): 35.0 inches a year, 5.7 less than here, and a July average high of 92°F against 91°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 44 | 20 | 1.1 | 3 | 2.4 |
| Feb | 49 | 24 | 1.5 | 3 | 2.4 |
| Mar | 59 | 33 | 2.9 | 5 | 1.3 |
| Apr | 68 | 43 | 4.1 | 6 | 0.0 |
| May | 77 | 54 | 6.0 | 8 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 86 | 64 | 5.7 | 7 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 91 | 68 | 4.3 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 90 | 66 | 4.5 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 82 | 58 | 3.1 | 5 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 71 | 45 | 3.7 | 5 | 0.0 |
| Nov | 58 | 33 | 2.1 | 4 | 0.3 |
| Dec | 46 | 23 | 1.7 | 3 | 2.6 |
| Year | 68 | 44 | 40.7 | 59 | 9.0 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Winfield 3NE, KS (1,233 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Winfield
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 187 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Winfield: 160 thunderstorm wind reports, 10 flash floods, 10 heavy rain events and 7 floods. They killed 0 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $4.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on May 18, 2026. May has had the most flash floods, 4 of 10. Of the 169 Kansas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 56 have had fewer than Winfield.
April 3, 1999: thunderstorm wind 2 miles from the centre of Winfield — 2 injured, $250,000 damage.
NWS: “In southeast Winfield, one barn was blown off it's foundation, slamming into the west wall of a home. One couple sustained minor injuries due to broken glass.”
June 1, 1996: thunderstorm wind 4 miles from the centre of Winfield — 2 injured, $5,000 damage.
July 20, 2009: thunderstorm wind 8 miles from the centre of Winfield — $1.0 million damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Winfield's ZIP code 67156 have filed 48 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 1998, with 15. 10% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 65 Kansas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 28 have fewer than Winfield.
Cowley County, which includes Winfield, has been named in 27 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1973, 23 of them major disasters (by incident: 19 severe storms, 3 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 1 hurricane). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding, on September 1, 2026. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Cowley County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively High for tornadoes; Relatively Moderate for hail and strong wind; Relatively Low for inland flooding, lightning and heat waves; Very Low for hurricanes. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $27.0 million a year, the 13th highest of 105 Kansas counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $7.7 million (28%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Winfield in the notable storm records: The May 25, 1955 F5 Tornado in Oklahoma, near Arkansas City, KS
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.
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